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The adapted activity-by-contact model for enhancer-gene assignment and its application to single-cell data.
Bioinformatics 39:btad062 (2023)
MOTIVATION: Identifying regulatory regions in the genome is of great interest for understanding the epigenomic landscape in cells. One fundamental challenge in this context is to find the target genes whose expression is affected by the regulatory regions. A recent successful method is the Activity-By-Contact (ABC) model (Fulco et al., 2019) which scores enhancer-gene interactions based on enhancer activity and the contact frequency of an enhancer to its target gene. However, it describes regulatory interactions entirely from a gene's perspective, and does not account for all the candidate target genes of an enhancer. In addition, the ABC-model requires two types of assays to measure enhancer activity, which limits the applicability. Moreover, there is no implementation available that could allow for an integration with transcription factor (TF) binding information nor an efficient analysis of single-cell data. RESULTS: We demonstrate that the ABC-score can yield a higher accuracy by adapting the enhancer activity according to the number of contacts the enhancer has to its candidate target genes and also by considering all annotated transcription start sites of a gene. Further, we show that the model is comparably accurate with only one assay to measure enhancer activity. We combined our generalised ABC-model (gABC) with TF binding information and illustrate an analysis of a single-cell ATAC-seq data set of the human heart, where we were able to characterise cell type-specific regulatory interactions and predict gene expression based on transcription factor affinities. All executed processing steps are incorporated into our new computational pipeline STARE. AVAILABILITY: The software is available at https://github.com/schulzlab/STARE. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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Publikationstyp
Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1367-4803
Zeitschrift
Bioinformatics
Quellenangaben
Band: 39,
Heft: 2,
Artikelnummer: btad062
Verlag
Oxford University Press
Verlagsort
Oxford
Nichtpatentliteratur
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Begutachtungsstatus
Peer reviewed
Institut(e)
Institute of Computational Biology (ICB)